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Superior Mining Co.

Past Producer in Pike county in Arkansas, United States with commodity Mercury
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040434
MRDS ID M055213
MAS/MILS ID 51090080
Record type Site
Current site name Superior Mining Co.
Alternate or previous names Section 32, Sec. 32, Superior Mining Company
Related records 10138559

Comments on the site identification

  • Comment already in the database (as of sometime before 2002) notes "SAME AS M055063". That MRDS no. refers to the Interstate Mill, a plant. It should remain in the database as a separate record. See 10040343.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -93.58167, 34.18444 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pike(county)

Arkansas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Murfreesboro NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Arkadelphia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Little Rock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Missouri(hydrologic unit)

Upper Ouachita(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Red-Ouachita(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arkansas Pike

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 06S 24W 32 C Arkansas

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Analytical data

Result 66 LB ORE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -93.58167, 34.18444
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1942

Mining district

District name Arkansas Quicksilver District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 100.58M
  • Type of workings Underground

Comments on the workings information

  • INACTIVE SINCE 1942

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    CHESTER, J.W., 1965, MERCURY IN ARKANSAS: USBM IC 8252

  • Production

    USBM DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SAME AS M055063

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1974-05-01 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey also M055205 = 10040427.
Editor 2012-11-16 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted 3 duplicate records. MAS 0051090080 = 10138559 and MRDS M055205 = 10040427 and MAS 0051090076 = 10284037.
Reporter 1980-05-20 Rlw U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0051090080 = 10138559

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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